(j3.2006) What does this mean?

Bill Long longb
Mon Oct 31 17:32:43 EDT 2011



On 10/31/11 3:10 PM, Van Snyder wrote:
> Does the following
>
> [13.7.1p2] "A program is prohibited from invoking an intrinsic procedure
> under circumstances where a value to be returned... is outside the range
> of values representable by objects of the specified type and type
> parameters...."
>
> mean "not greater than the most positive value and not less than the
> most negative value," or "not a member of the set of valid values," as
> specified by

For integer results, the first option seems reasonable.  For reals 
results, I  would exclude the values in the interval (-tiny, tiny), 
except for zero.  Ultimately, this rule is to disallow expressions like 
EXP(big_num).  The processor has to be given a reasonable chance to 
represent the result.
>
> [4.1.2p1] "For each type, there is a set of valid values....  The sets
> of valid values for... real are processor dependent."
>

Is this materially different?  The square root of 2 is likely not one of 
these "valid values", but the SQRT function returns an "approximation" 
so it can hit one of the valid values and be reasonably close to correct.

If you consider Infinity to be in the set of valid values, it is a bit 
less clear (for either case).

Cheers,
Bill


> [4.2p1]  "A type might be parameterized.  In this case, the set of
> values... depend[s] on the values of the parameters."
>
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